United States v. Abbamonte’s Empirical Analysis
759 F.2d 1065 · 1985
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably United States v. Garcia-Rosa (1989), United States v. Fentress (1986)
55 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 31 U.S.C. § 5316
Relies on Santobello v. New York · Abney v. United States · Patterson v. United States · Orloff v. Willoughby · United States v. MacDonald
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an order denying a colorable claim to dismiss an indictment for violation of a prior plea agreement remains appealable in this Circuit.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“long recognized 'the ease with which prosecutors can draft indictments that allege what appear to be separate conspiracies but may actually be parts of an overall conspiracy.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the Government alleges that defendants conspired with others, and there is evidence that participants of one conspiracy are acquainted with personnel in the other, that the conspiracy cannot operate without a larger organization backing it up, and that dates and geographic areas overlap, the burden of proving separate conspiracies shifts to the prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.